I first read the comic in preparation for the movie, and loved them at the time. However, having re-read them in 2020, it doesn't stand up so well. It joins a list of original books, like Jurassic Park for example, shown up by their adaptations' more economical storytelling and other improvements. The comics now feel quite flabby. And worse, politically dated. It finds the mere existence of homosexuality hilarious, and (though I struggle to remember the details, as I wrote them out in a Slack channel a few months ago where they were soon wiped away) women are often slut-shamed and called bitches (though only by each other and gay men - apparently this makes it okay).
Watch the movie instead.
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